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A full kitchen remodel in West Hollywood typically runs $14,000 to $45,000, with small and partial remodels landing closer to $9,000 to $20,000. What actually drives that number here isn’t the cost of cabinets or quartz. It’s the city’s own building department, rent-control occupancy rules, and the condition of the 1950s and 1960s framing behind your walls. Barrett & Sons Construction has been pulling permits and passing inspections in West Hollywood long enough to know which of those three will show up on your job. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll scope it honestly before you spend a dollar.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is West Hollywood’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
We’re not a franchise sending a rotating cast of subcontractors to your door. Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews. When a West Hollywood homeowner calls us about a kitchen, Tom or one of his sons is usually the first person standing in the room measuring for cabinets. Our customers around Santa Monica Boulevard, the Norma Triangle, and Fountain Avenue know we answer our own phone, show up when we say we will, and put every price change on paper before work starts.
West Hollywood reviews tell the same story. Homeowners mention the written change orders, the crew showing up on time, and the fact that someone named Barrett actually walked the job. We don’t chase the cheapest possible bid. We chase a kitchen that passes final inspection the first time, in a city where that is harder than most people realize.
Response time to West Hollywood is measured in minutes, not hours. Dispatch and scheduling coordinate from our Miami office, but the crews serving West Hollywood work these streets every week. We know the dingbat apartments off La Cienega and Crescent Heights Boulevard, the courtyard bungalows near West Knoll Drive, and the hillside lots where the clay moves under your slab. That local knowledge changes how we scope a job from the first site visit.
Tom publishes his name, address, and license number. Look him up before you sign anything. Then call the number on this page and ask for Tom. A live person answers, 24 hours a day.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in West Hollywood
Full Kitchen Remodeling
This is the whole job: demolition, framing, plumbing and electrical, drywall, flooring, cabinets, counters, backsplash, and fixtures. In West Hollywood, a full remodel runs $14,000 to $45,000, and the final number depends heavily on what the city’s plan-check queue and any rent-control occupancy rules require. If your building falls under the mandatory soft-story retrofit, we coordinate framing changes with your structural engineer before rough-in, so your kitchen work doesn’t conflict with the building’s lateral upgrades. Scope in writing, allowances in writing, change orders in writing. That’s how we start every full remodel in 90069.
Cabinet Installation & Refacing
If your cabinet boxes are square and solid, refacing can save you thousands. New doors, drawer fronts, and veneer in a West Hollywood kitchen typically runs $4,000 to $13,000 when we install and finish. For older dingbat units and 1920s courtyard bungalows, we check for out-of-plumb walls before measuring anything. Framing in those buildings has settled for sixty to ninety years, and shimming new cabinet runs on a wavy wall is where cheap installs fail. We carry KraftMaid and can match custom door profiles for refacing. This lets a West Hollywood homeowner keep their kitchen functional while the city processes whatever else the building needs.
Countertop Installation
Quartz and granite countertops in West Hollywood generally run $2,000 to $6,500 installed, depending on stone grade, edge profile, and how many linear feet of slab you need. We work with Silestone, Cambria, and Ceasarstone, and our template process accounts for the uneven corners common in older stucco buildings. For kitchens in rent-controlled properties, we sequence countertop installs around tenant noise rules, not just our own schedule. A Cambria quartz island top off Santa Monica Boulevard doesn’t get noisy until the seam work starts, and we plan for that.
Kitchen Design & Layout
Most West Hollywood kitchens are compact, and the difference between cramped and functional is usually nine inches. We measure every inch, then build a 3D design with cabinet pull-outs, corner storage, and a work triangle that actually works for one cook. For kitchen additions on hillside-adjacent lots north of Sunset, we bring the engineer and, when the city requires it, the soils consultant in before we commit to a layout. You don’t want to design around a footprint the clay under your lot won’t support.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
Backsplash installation in West Hollywood runs $800 to $2,500 for most kitchens. Tile and flooring go up from there based on square footage, material, and whether your subfloor is original 1960s plywood or a newer concrete slab. Older dingbat units often have layer upon layer of old flooring, and we level before we lay. That’s standard for us. It’s a line item on your quote, not a surprise at the end.
What happens when you call
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in West Hollywood
Our Kitchen Remodeling team installs materials you can actually look up before you buy. Simonton windows hold up well in coastal-adjacent heat and humidity cycles like what West Hollywood gets in late summer. Ply Gem and PGT round out our window lineups, and we stock the common parts for quicker turnaround on West Hollywood jobs. You won’t find mystery-brand cabinets or off-brand stone going into a Barrett & Sons kitchen. If we wouldn’t put it in Tom’s house, it doesn’t go in yours.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in West Hollywood Homes
We’ve remodeled enough kitchens across West Hollywood to know what’s behind your walls before we open them. Here are the issues we see most often in 90069.
- Rent-control occupancy constraints: In a rent-controlled dingbat, we’re often remodeling a kitchen while your neighbors are still home above, below, and beside us. The city enforces tenant-habitability rules under its Rent Stabilization Ordinance, so we schedule loud demolition and saw work around protected hours and submit the required notifications. Contractors who work mostly in Los Angeles don’t always know this until an inspector stops their job.
- Expansive clay on hillside-adjacent lots: The northern edges of West Hollywood sit on clays that shrink through the dry months and heave when winter rain finally arrives. That cycle stresses slabs and can crack a new kitchen island foundation within a year if nobody ran a soils report. We scope that before we quote, not after the crack appears.
- Unknown wiring and plumbing in older buildings: Courtyard bungalows from the 1920s and dingbats from the 1950s and 60s often still have knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized supply lines, and cast-iron drain stacks. A kitchen remodel is the right time to replace these, and we identify them during the estimate, not during rough-in. If the permit inspector finds them first, your schedule slips and your price changes.
- Soft-story retrofit conflicts: Many West Hollywood apartment buildings are now in the city’s mandatory seismic retrofit queue. Our crew just wrapped a full kitchen remodel in a 1962 stucco dingbat off Santa Monica Boulevard near the Norma Triangle. The building is under the soft-story retrofit, so we scoped the load-bearing wall removal with a structural engineer before rough-in and sequenced noisy cabinet installation around the tenant protection hours the inspector enforces. Final sign-off came with zero change orders because the draw schedule and allowances were in writing from day one.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in West Hollywood, FL
Here’s what we quote for kitchen work in West Hollywood, in plain numbers.
| Service | Typical Range in West Hollywood |
|---|---|
| Full Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 - $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 - $20,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 - $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 - $6,500 |
| Kitchen Island Installation | $3,000 - $10,000 |
What moves the number in West Hollywood is not the stone or the cabinet door style. It’s whether the city requires a soils report, whether the building is in the soft-story queue, and whether rent-control occupancy rules limit our work hours. A quote that doesn’t ask those questions is guessing. Our quotes are free, and every one includes line items for permits, engineering when needed, and materials by name. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll give you a written number that survives plan check.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hollywood
Barrett & Sons Construction regularly works throughout Kitchen Remodeling in West Hollywood and the surrounding area, including Hollywood, Andover, Miramar, and West Park. If you’re a homeowner just outside the city line with a kitchen to remodel, the same written change orders and 90-Day Done Right Promise apply. Call and we’ll tell you if the permit path changes across the border.
Serving West Hollywood, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West Hollywood area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Kitchen Remodeling in West Hollywood
If you’re only swapping cabinet boxes, doors, and countertops without touching plumbing, electrical, or walls, West Hollywood generally treats it as a finish update, not a structural remodel. But if you’re replacing electrical runs behind cabinets or running new water lines to an island, you’ll need an electrical or plumbing permit through the city’s own plan-check queue. When in doubt, call us and we’ll check with city staff before you start. Estimates are free.
The city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance sets specific rules around construction in occupied buildings, including notification requirements and limits on noisy work during certain hours. That means a kitchen remodel in a rent-controlled dingbat is scheduled around the tenants still living in adjacent units. City inspectors enforce these rules. We factor them into our timeline before we quote, not after the inspector shows up. Call (877) 610-1318 if you own a rent-controlled property and want an honest look at what’s involved.
On the hillside-adjacent lots north of Sunset Boulevard, yes, very often. The expansive clay in that area shrinks in summer and heaves in winter, and the city routinely requires soils engineering for ground-disturbing work on those parcels. Skipping it is how a new kitchen island slab cracks within a year. We bring the consultant in before quoting so the foundation scope is right from day one.
Usually, yes, if the island doesn’t move a wall, add plumbing, or alter common-area electrical in a way that affects neighboring units. But in multi-unit buildings, anything touching a shared wall or the slab between units can pull the city in for review. We check the condo association rules and the city’s requirements before you commit. No trip charge inside the county, and we can tell you quickly whether your island plan triggers anything.
Because Los Angeles has a different building department with different plan-check times, different inspectors, and no West Hollywood-specific tenant-habitability rules. A contractor who pulls permits through LADBS all week doesn’t always know West Hollywood runs its own queue and enforces its own occupancy rules under the RSO. That lower LA quote usually doesn’t survive first inspection in WeHo. We quote for the city the job is actually in. That’s the number that holds.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving West Hollywood since 1998.